Day 3 of playing tourist.

During the Bad Old Days, this was the Trump International Hotel.

However 

It is now the Waldorf Astoria.

I do hope they had an exorcism.  It might not have been 100% successful. This is the hotel where Sen. McConnell fell and hit his head earlier this week. 

I was always amused that the IRS was next door to the Trump Hotel.

It was chilly and damp today. Not the finest kind day for being a tourist. So I changed my original plan and returned to the Natural History Museum.

I went back to see the stuffed animals.

I mostly wanted to see the stuffed animals. I am seriously conflicted about the stuffed animals. I like them. But feel that maybe I shouldn’t. 

They even have this slightly moth-eaten lion that Theodore Roosevelt shot in 1913. 
Chinese Pangolin

I have never seen one of these in a zoo. But it is a totally marvelous creature. One was born at the Prague zoo last month and is being kept alive on cat milk. House cat. Not big cat. 

After taking in the stuffed mammals. And an exhibit about Epidemics. And another about Barro Colorado Island, I was ready for some lunch.

Typewriter Eraser, Scale X, model 1998, fabricated 1999. Nobody knows what this thing was anymore. Heck, it was obsolete in 1999.

Off to the National Gallery of Art for some soup. Shared a table with a nice lady from London. Then to the Metro. And the Bus. And back home. Didn’t get too wet or cold. But only 8,300 steps and 3 miles today. 

Had drinks with my friends and then made an omelet for dinner. 

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